Definitions for personate

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personate per·son·ate

Spelling: [pur-suh-neyt]

IPA: /ˈpɜr səˌneɪt/

Personate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 820 anagrams from letters in personate (aeenoprst).

Definitions for personate

adjective

1. Botany. (of a bilabiate corolla) masklike. having the lower lip pushed upward so as to close the gap between the lips, as in the snapdragon.
2. Zoology. having a masked or disguised form, as the larvae of certain insects. having masklike markings.

verb (used with object)

1. to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
2. to assume the character or appearance of; pass oneself off as, especially with fraudulent intent; impersonate.
3. to represent in terms of personal properties or characteristics; personify.

verb (used without object)

1. to act or play a part.

Origin of personate

1590-1600; v. use of Latin persōnātus personate²

Examples for personate

It was his own idea to personate you, and the risk is his own.

It needed freedom, and the absence of any urgency, to enable him to personate a gentleman.

I accompanied Linton to Limerick at his request, dressed to personate you.

His plan, therefore, was to kill him, and then personate him.

At that moment he was less like himself than was the impostor who came there to personate him.

We fixed upon Pierce to personate the ghost because he was tall and lanky.

Let us fancy him on a journey, try and personate him; that would be the real way.

Not always, however, did they personate the same characters.

It was a picture that she dared not let her mind rest on: how then could she personate it?

He may personate me long enough to kill my father and rifle his hoards.